Update image after edit with external editor

[Greg Smith]

Very nice to be able to specify an external image editor in latest release.
However, when I use MSPaint, the image does not update after editing and I have to navigate away and back to refresh it. Please refresh the image after a change... and maybe you should refresh if a window with a file-based image loses focus.

[Tim Green]

Very nice to be able to specify an external image editor in latest release.

This has always been possible, ever since Help+Manual 5, I think.

However, when I use MSPaint, the image does not update after editing and I have to navigate away and back to refresh it. Please refresh the image after a change... and maybe you should refresh if a window with a file-based image loses focus.

For this Help+Manual would need to constantly monitor changes to the external file on the hard disk, which isn't really necessary, and which would generate excessive overheads in topics containing a lot of images. Then customers would start nagging at us that the editor was too slow. Just right-click on the image after editing and select Picture > Reload in the context menu.

[Greg Smith]

Thank you for the reply.
There is no need to constantly monitor... Detecting that H&M has gained focus would be enough... Speaking with my developer hat on, when an app gains focus there is a lot of stuff that happens. Lots of Applications do this, for instance development IDEs (for example Visual Studio, which can have a lot of files open) do it to check if any of their files have been modified by external programs.
Thank you for suggesting a work-around. It is just that this has been a minor annoyance for years... most things in H&M 'Just Work' TM.